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Intesa Sanpaolo, led by CEO Carlo Messina, confirms its position among the leading banks in the European market, where in 2025, excluding Italy, it participated together with other banks in:
- financing operations with a total value of over 170 billion euros, as Mandated Lead Arranger, of which project finance deals worth over 30 billion euros, equal to over 20% of the European total;
- bond issues for approximately 60 billion euros as Bookrunner.
In on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the presence of Intesa Sanpaolo in Luxembourg, a delegation of the IMI CIB Division, led by Chief Mauro Micillo, will present today at a representation of the economic and financial community of the Grand Duchy the most recent and important operations concluded at European level.
Mauro Micillo, Chief of the IMI CIB Division, stated: "The numerous transactions completed in Europe and the significant results achieved in 2025 and the first quarter of 2026 confirm our solidity and dynamism. Intesa Sanpaolo is increasingly strengthening its presence in the European market in corporate banking, structured finance, and capital markets, and is a leading bank in sustainable finance. The expertise and relationships of the IMI CIB Division's International Network, particularly those of Intesa Sanpaolo Luxembourg, whose fiftieth anniversary we are celebrating today, enable us to play a leading role in multiple international contexts, starting with the European one. We expect to continue growing in the area, also thanks to the investment momentum launched by the EU in key sectors such as climate transition, digital infrastructure, aerospace and defense, the Blue Economy, and healthcare."
Some of the main operations in Europe of the IMI CIB Division in 2025-26
In Europe, IMI CIB has completed numerous significant transactions with both corporate and institutional clients in sectors such as infrastructure, energy transition, telecommunications, automotive, new materials, food & beverage, and financials. The division has played a leading role in these sectors, collaborating with major international banking groups and confirming its strategic role in supporting international development.
- Telefonica (2026, Spain) – Active Joint Bookrunner in the placement of a €750 million senior unsecured bond issue.
- Mercedes-Benz (2026, Germany) – Joint Bookrunner in the placement of a two-tranche bond totaling €1,3 billion.
- Coca Cola HBC (2026, Greece) – Joint Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner in the placement of a three-tranche bond totaling €2,1 billion.
- Engie (2026, France) – Joint Bookrunner in the placement of a green bond, in hybrid format, for €600 million.
- Belfius (2026, Belgium) – Active Joint Bookrunner for the first time on Belfius’s €750 million Senior Non-Preferred project.
- EDF – Électricité de France (2026, France) – Joint Bookrunner in the placement of a four-tranche green nuclear bond totaling €2,75 billion.
- Heidelberg Materials (2026, Germany) – Joint Bookrunner in the placement of a EUR 600 million green bond.
- La Banque Postale (2026, France) – Active Joint Bookrunner in the placement of the €1 billion guaranteed bank bond issue.
- Eutelsat (2026-25, France) – Bookrunner for the €670 million capital increase to execute the approximately €5 billion IRIS² strategic initiative.
- Klépierre (2025, France) – Coordinator of the refinancing of a €1,2 billion syndicated revolving credit facility for Klépierre, a leading European shopping center real estate company. The Paris branch acted as bookrunner and MLA.
- Stockholm Exergi – BECCS Stockholm (2025, Sweden) – Sole Global Coordinator and Sole Bookrunner in the €700 million financing to support the construction of BECCS Stockholm, one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage facilities.
- ProSieben (2025, Germany) – Financial advisor in the tender offer of MFE – Media for Europe for ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (ProSieben). Underwriter, bookrunner, and MLA in the syndicated financing of the transaction.
Intesa Sanpaolo Luxembourg's 50th anniversary
Part of theInternational Network of the IMI CIB Division Supporting corporate clients in 23 countries, Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg SA is the first Italian bank of systemic importance in the Grand Duchy – one of the six Other Systemically Important Institutions designated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier –, a strategic presence in the financial heart of continental Europe for the Group's international activities, highly specialized in services dedicated to large corporate clients, financial institutions and public bodies (Corporate Banking, Structured Finance & Securitization, Capital Markets, Sustainable Finance and Treasury Management & Transaction Banking).
Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg It is an issuer under a €70 billion Euro Medium Term Note programme listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and participates in a €30 billion Euro Commercial Paper programme of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group.
Tonight, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Intesa Sanpaolo in the Grand Duchy and illustrate the activities of the IMI CIB Division, the Chief Mauro Micillo and the Managing Director and CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo Luxembourg, Massimo Torchiana, will welcome the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, at a reception at the Cercle Cité on the Place d'Armes in the historic centre of Luxembourg City, Luc Frieden, the Ambassador of Italy, Carmine Robustelli, the Minister of Finance of Luxembourg, Gilles Roth, and a representation of the economic and financial community of the Grand Duchy.
The history of Intesa Sanpaolo Luxembourg dates back to 2 June 1976, with the establishment of the Société Européenne de Banque SA., a strategic joint venture between Banca Commerciale Italiana Holding—a Luxembourg-based company that held BCI's foreign holdings—Banca della Svizzera Italiana—a long-standing Ticino bank—and Compagnie Monégasque de Banque. Today, Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg has 170 employees and is headquartered in Intesa Sanpaolo House, a new eight-story building at 28 Boulevard de Kockelscheuer, in the Cloche d'Or business district. Since 2022, the Group's various Luxembourg entities have been consolidated there.
Other entities of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group in Luxembourg
In addition to Intesa Sanpaolo Luxembourg, Intesa Sanpaolo House in Luxembourg hosts:
Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management, the Group's international private banking hub, also operating through the Fideuram Direct platform to offer digital wealth management and investment services;
Eurizon Capital SGR – Luxembourg Branch, specializing in the establishment and management of Luxembourg-based investment funds.
Three works from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection for Republic Day and the 50th anniversary
From June 2, Republic Day On the occasion of the fifty-year anniversary of Intesa Sanpaolo's establishment in Luxembourg, the Bank has chosen to exhibit three works by Jannis Kounellis from its art collection in the capital of the Grand Duchy, thanks to its collaboration with Gallerie d'Italia. After being installed in the residence of the Italian Ambassador, the works are now on display to the public at Intesa Sanpaolo House.
In the summer of 1976, the year in which he took office in Luxembourg, the Banca Commerciale Italiana Purchase the first of three Untitled works by Jannis Kounellis, a Greek painter and sculptor born in Piraeus in 1936 and naturalized Italian, one of the protagonists of Arte Povera who passed away in Rome in 2017. The strategy of internationalization of the Group's banking activities in those years was combined with a focus on art, laying the foundations for the creation of what is today one of the most important banking collections in the world.
